I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D. H. LAWRENCEI would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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